FIRE INCIDENT IN AMRI HOSPITAL KOLKATA

On 09/12/2011 a fire incident accrued at AMRI hospital Kolkata. NDRF got call from state authorities regarding assistance in locating any possible radiation threat from the sensitive radiology department of hospital as well as the medical equipments during fire. Immediately after getting call one CBRN team of 02 Bn NDRF located at Kolkata reached incident site under the supervision of Sh B.S. Dhar, DC. This team carried out radiation detection operation in every part of hospital. The basement was filled with water, this also could not stop team from conducting radiation detection in basement. After the through radiation detection for around one hour team declayered hospital free from any hazardous radiation.